TED Orland TALK
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On Monday, May 16, 2016 at 6:30pm, Carmel Visual Arts will host Photographer Ted Orland who will be offering a lecture which will be illustrated with examples from his own artwork and seasoned with snapshots capturing the flavor of the local scene. Ted will recount his experiences and insights into building a life in the arts.
Ted Orland is a local photographer and writer who exhibits his artwork locally, and has taught photography at Cabrillo College since 1976. Orland received a degree in Industrial Design from USC in 1963. In 1966 he attended a workshop in Yosemite with photographer Ansel Adams, and the next year he returned as his assistant, who was his only formal photography instructor. After this period he worked to receive a Master’s degree in Creative Arts from S.F. State University.
Orland began his career as a photographer shooting subjects in a similar fashion to those of Adams. As his own style progressed, though, he moved from straight large format nature photography to hand painting black and white photographs, and then later using a ‘Holga’ plastic camera. He also used digital and computer equipment for photography early on in the technology’s evolution. It is now known he took the first computer based photographic images of Yosemite in the early 1980s. Later, as the technology advanced, he tested early versions of Photoshop for Adobe. Orland’s subjects range from idyllic scenes of tranquil nature to surreal explosions of humorous human activity, and he tends to manipulate his subjects heavily in Photoshop to achieve a variety of effects, some often very subtle graphically.
Published Books:
- The View From the Studio Door (2006)
- Art & Fear with David Bayles (1993)
- Scenes of Wonder & Curiosity (1988)
- Man & Yosemite (1985)
